"Our vision for maternity is to deliver the local, regional and national strategic objectives and meet the needs of women and families in our local community; making services even safer, kinder, more personalised and family friendly."

We are very proud to offer a freestanding midwifery unit at Wycombe Hospital where healthy women with uncomplicated pregnancies can choose to give birth. We offer the same care and facilities as on our Aylesbury birth centre but without on-site obstetric, anaesthetic or neonatal services. Please note there have been changes to services at the Wycombe Birth Centre.

More information is available at the Wycombe Birth Centre website.

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Services offered at Wycombe:

Wycombe offers two options for place of birth; a freestanding midwifery led unit at the Wycombe Birth Centre and a home birth service. Wycombe also offers a number of specialist clinics and an ultrasonography service.

Wycombe Birth Centre (WBC)

WBC offers women and their families the opportunity to birth in a friendly and relaxed environment supported by one of our midwives who is passionate about physiological birth. We have three bright and airy birthing rooms, all of which are ensuite and fully air conditioned. We can also facilitate use of our pools, balls, stools, couches or our specifically designed birth bed which can support women to deliver in a variety of physiological positions. Midwives at WBC are able to support a number of analgesic options including aromatherapy, massage, TENS, hypnobirthing techniques, water and Entonox (gas and air) and Pethidine.Whilst the majority of births are uncomplicated and straightforward our highly skilled midwives and maternity care assistants are trained to identify and manage any emergency situations that could arise ensuring the ongoing safety of both mum and baby.

We have a single postnatal room for women who wish to stay following their birth, where we can facilitate birth partners staying too on our pull out bed.

WBC is home to one of our Continuity of Carer (CoC) teams looking after women who are choosing to birth their babies here. As part of the CoC team you would have a named midwife who works as part of a small team based within the birth centre. Your named midwife will provide the majority of your antenatal care from designated clinics held within the WBC. You will be able to form and develop a meaningful and positive relationship with your named midwife as well as having the opportunity to meet the wider continuity team.

Labour care is provided by one of the CoC team midwives whom you will have had the opportunity to meet during your pregnancy and who will be able to fully support you in the birth choices that you wish to make. Following the birth of your baby you will be offered postnatal appointments at WBC in clinics run by one of the CoC team midwives, with the opportunity to have at least one appointment with your named midwife.

Home Birth

The community midwives based at Wycombe Hospital also offer a home birth service for women experiencing an uncomplicated pregnancy. They provide a 24 hour service by means of an on-call system. If you wish to birth your baby at home, your community midwife will visit you during your pregnancy to discuss your personalised birth plan so that we can facilitate a positive birth experience. We are able to offer a variety of analgesic options in the home environment including Entonox (gas and air) and Pethidine.

Specialist Outpatient Clinics

• Specialist consultant led antenatal clinic pathways providing:

• Early pregnancy assessment unit

• Community midwives hub

• Routine ultrasound scans

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Hospital: Women’s Centre, John Radcliffe

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'The vision for maternity services in Oxfordshire is for the right woman to get into the right part of the maternity services and to be cared for by the right professional. The aim is for every woman to experience personalised care from an early medical risk assessment through to birth and beyond. It encompasses real choice and continuity of care throughout the pregnancy, birth and postnatal period. 'It is our aim that all staff provide respectful, safe, compassionate and excellent care to all women and their babies in our care.'

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Hospital: Wantage Maternity Unit

Wantage Maternity Unit

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“The vision for maternity services in Oxfordshire is for the right woman to get into the right part of the maternity services and to be cared for by the right professional. The aim is for every woman to experience personalised care from an early medical risk assessment through to birth and beyond. It encompasses real choice and continuity of care throughout the pregnancy, birth and postnatal period.

“It is our aim that all staff provide respectful, safe, compassionate and excellent care to all women and their babies in our care.”

Wantage Maternity Unit

Wantage Maternity and Birthing Centre is a friendly, midwifery-led unit within Wantage Community Hospital. It is run by experienced community midwives and maternity care assistants. The unit is the smallest of the four Oxfordshire freestanding midwifery-led units and is the ideal place for women who have experienced an uncomplicated pregnancy and expecting a normal birth. It provides care for women in the Wantage and Abingdon areas, working closely with the Abingdon midwifery team. The unit has recently been completely redecorated, offering two birthing rooms, one with a large pool and a small kitchen to make refreshments as requested.

What we offer

Antenatal

We run several midwife led antenatal clinics from our unit and hold our own glucose tolerance test clinic on a Tuesday morning but we can also do these at any other time if needed. We run ‘meet the midwife’ sessions online for you to meet a wider range of our team.

Online video tours of the unit are available here: Oxfordshire Maternity Voices

Labour

The unit offers a safe and secure environment for women to give birth, with midwives providing one to one support in labour. Whilst in labour you are encouraged to make your birth environment your own and move into whatever position you feel most comfortable. We can aid in this with aromatherapy and massage, but you are encouraged to bring in any equipment such as balls, pillows or TENS machine that you may find beneficial. As well as the large birthing pool we offer a range of pain relieving options, heat pads, Entonox and Meptid (an injection). Most births are straightforward however the midwives and maternity support workers are trained to deal with emergencies and monitor you and your baby regularly through labour. Complications are swiftly recognised and if it is felt you or baby should be seen by a doctor then you will be accompanied in an ambulance the John Radcliffe Hospital Women’s Centre, Oxford.

Postnatal

Immediately after the birth if you wish, we will support you to breastfeed your baby and promote skin-to-skin contact after birth. Your length of stay may vary from a few hours up to six hours after your delivery. If you wish to stay for longer out of hours, we would recommend a transfer to Wallingford Midwifery Led Unit as it has 24 hour staffing. Our aim is that you leave the unit rested and confident in caring for your baby. Once you are home, we can provide breastfeeding support, either giving advice over the phone, booking an appointment at our unit to be seen with their baby or arrange to see you in your own home. There is a weekly newborn hearing screening clinic on a Tuesday. We can perform the newborn infant physical examination at the unit or at home. We also hire out breast pumps and valley cushions for a small fee. Women are free to contact us on tel: 01865 904832 between 8am & 4pm (after this time please call Wallingford on tel: 01491 826037) seven days a week for pregnancy related queries and labour triage. There is an answer machine for non-urgent enquiries.

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Your community midwife will notify your local health visiting team, who will make contact with you antenatally around 31-34 weeks pregnant and again postnatally when your baby is around 10 days old.

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Please use postcode OX12 7AS , when using online routefinders for directions to the Wantage Midwifery-Led Unit, to take you to the correct entrance.

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Wycombe Birth Centre

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Home Birth

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Wantage Maternity Unit

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Wantage Maternity Unit

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Antenatal

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